[ATrpms-devel] nvidia FC6

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:47:06AM -0300, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> Hi, Axel
> 
> I installed FC6 yesterday morning, and although it s up and running there
> are
> some differences. xorg.conf is almost "empty". I know they changed that.
> The idea is having everything recognized by default,
> but when I installed nvdia drivers form ATrpms, the rpm did not write
> anything
> in xorg.conf.

That's because it needs a section to start with. It is a known problem
of the script, the ModulePath parts may have to be added in another
way now. I just haven't had the time to find a new solution, but
please beat me to it :)

> Therefore, to load the module, I had to change nv for nvidia and also add
> 
> Section "Files"
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, a font server independent of the X server is
> # used to render fonts.
>        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
>        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
>        FontPath     "unix/:7100"
> EndSection
> 
> Doing that, nvidia driver was loaded and appears to be fine.
> 
> Are these ModulePath still necessary, or everything works out-of-the-box
> by a "miracle"?
> 
> Now I think it is just to wait for the packages to appear.
> 
> I realized that mplayer is not available. Any special reason?
> 
> By the way, your yum kmdl module is trying to install both spca5xx and
> gspcav1
> (I have still have spca5xx from older kernels).

Hm, even though the one obsoltes the other? Hm, not nice.

> Thanks.
> 
> /Paulo Roma.

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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